How Many Marines Spilled Their Blood In Two World Wars.......

......to protect the rights of Code Pink?

Berkeley council tells Marines to leave

By Doug Oakley

STAFF WRITER

Article Launched: 01/30/2008 01:48:16 PM PST

Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Marines in Berkeley have got to go.

That's the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 6-3 Tuesday night to tell the U.S. Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."

In addition, the council voted to explore enforcing its law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation against the Marines because of the military's don't ask, don't tell policy. And it officially encouraged the women's peace group Code Pink to impede the work of the Marines in the city by protesting in front of the station.

In a separate item, the council voted 8-1 to give Code Pink a designated parking space in front of the recruiting station once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week from noon to 4 p.m.

Councilman Gordon Wozniak opposed both items.

The Marines have been in Berkeley for a little more than a year, having moved from Alameda in December of 2006. For about the past four months, Code Pink has been protesting in front of the station.

"I believe in the Code Pink cause. The Marines don't belong here, they shouldn't have come here, and they should leave," said Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates after votes were cast.

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Let's Help.......

Someone out there must recognize this victim and this car and hopefully they will come forward or will this be another example of cultural silence.

Cops release photo of car linked to abandoned baby

Updated Thu. Jan. 31 2008 10:14 AM ET

toronto.ctv.ca

Police have released a picture of a car they believe is connected to a baby girl found abandoned in a North York shopping plaza stairwell Wednesday afternoon.

"We are actively looking for this car and doing everything we can," Staff Sgt. Don Cole said at a press conference Wednesday.

The car is described as a 1997 - 2000 model green four-door Ford Escort.

Authorities are appealing to the public to help them identify the girl, believed to be about eight months old.

The baby was found by a shopper at around 12:30 p.m. At first the shopper thought the infant was a discarded doll but then the child began to cry.

Police said they fear the baby may have been abused as there were minor bruises on her body.

"There are scrapes and bruises, and a considerable amount of her body is involved in that," Cole said.

"I'm appealing to the parents to come forward," he continued. "Let us know who you are, let us know you're all right and this can be sorted out."

The girl is described as being black with a light complexion. She was wearing a green and white snowsuit with a pink jumper underneath when she was found.

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Kate's Wrapup On Afrocentric Schools

Lefties Will Be Getting Out Their Label Makers

Apartheid High

Streamlining the "school-to-jail pipeline", an Afrocentric school in Toronto receives approval. And not a moment too soon!

2001-2002 statistical data from the [Toronto District School Board] indicates the percentage of students from specific geograpical locations at risk of not graduating:

- 45% of Western African, Central and South American students at risk
- 39% East African
- 24 % of South Asian
- 23% Eastern European
- 16% Eastern Asian

Watch for the next step in this brave new social scheme - redefining academic standards to "normalize" Afro-achievement.

More here, here and here - "where race and failure are the only criteria for entrance".

And here (from Jan. 26th);

My black special ed students were quite a challenge. I set and upheld high standards and my students all improved markedly, both behaviourally and academically. But, as I said, this took constant vigilance and intervention on my part, with no to negative pull from their usually single mothers. This group is now in another class, with a much less experienced teacher. Their behaviour has deteriorated rapidly. Very sad.

I also taught summer school in an inner city school with many black kids, many of the girls wearing hijab. The insolence, sense of entitlement, and plain bad manners of a good number of these kids was most disturbing, not to mention that, academically, the standard was pretty low. (One “hijabbed” young miss, about 10, refused to stand for “O Canada”: “It’s not my country.” That only happened on the first day as I made it altogether clear that sitting for the national anthem was NOT an option.)

It’s occurred to me that an all-black school—presumably for the most troubled and troublesome kids—would be hell (for the all black teachers, I suppose) to work in UNLESS it set a very different standard from most public schools: uniforms, high behavioural and academic expectations, upheld on a consistent basis. In other words, Tough Love. I don’t, however, see that happening. E.g., I saw a panel discussion on TVO about the Falconer Commission: Board Director, with her pasted on smile, slogan spouting head of the union, two almost inarticulate parents, one white, one black, a yappy, chip on the shoulder, black trustee, and John Snobelen. As no one was willing to actually diagnose the problem, the solutions they suggested were mere bromides. The problem for most of the problem kids? The accepted family structure of many kids by many fathers, with no dad around the home sets these kids up for failure from the start. Their mothers are often very young, uneducated, inarticulate, chip on the shoulder women who are not able to provide the security and role modelling necessary to socialize their kids. Any school for this type of kid would have to be built on a philosophy of high structure and non negotiable authority, consistently and seriously enforced. I believe any “solution” which overlooks this is not going to make much of a difference.

Racist!

There. I saved you the trouble.

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SAD! Who Will Be Blamed? Probably You And I!

Eight-Month-Old Baby Found In Parking Garage Stairwell In North York

Police call the infant's survival in the freezing cold a 'miracle', as they try to confirm her identity.

Body of 2nd child found on Sask. reserve

The frozen body of a baby girl has been found on a Saskatchewan First Nation and it's believed to be the one-year-old sister of a three-year-old girl found dead Tuesday.

The Same Old Same Old At City Hall

Tree trumps citizens' rights

Heavy-handed council decision is 'emotional blackmail'

By SUE-ANN LEVY

Sadly it's becoming all too clear that Mayor David Miller's socialist regime has far more respect for trees than those nasty pests (a.k.a. the public) who put them in their cozy council seats.

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The People Speak - Once Again Elected Officials Don't Listen

Personally I think the whole idea of africentric schools is just another way of social in-activists getting to visit the trough and from all the polls, talk shows, blog comments it would appear that the vast majority of the people who foot the bill are, for their own reasons, opposed to this also so then how can the 11 elected officials justify their position.

Debate rages over Africentric schools after vote

toronto.ctv.ca

The debate over Africentric schools in Toronto is raging Wednesday despite a vote the night before by school trustees to approve a controversial step to help struggling black students with alternative education.

By a vote of 11 to nine, school trustees agreed on an "operational model" for a black-focused school.

The school would focus on the experiences and contributions of African people with a goal of discouraging students in the black community from dropping out.

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Take the time to read the comments........

Gov't. Won't Pay For Black School, As Faith-Based Funding Argument Returns

So where will the Toronto trustees get the money? Take a guess! They will reduce the amount spent in the classroom thereby penalizing the remainder of the student body.

'Show us the money'Staff estimate development costs at $820,000

Toronto City Council Hard At Work.........

Vendor needed to fund street food pilot project

Meanwhile, new lobbyist registry put on the back burner again

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Can A 11-9 Vote Be Considered An Embrace.......

......not in my books.

Board shouldn't shy away from `black' school

Jan 28, 2008 04:30 AM

The Toronto District School Board this week votes on a staff recommendation supporting the 2009 start-up of a black-focused school in northwest Toronto.

Wisdom, common sense, justice and board policy dictate that school trustees vote "Yes."

What's needed when the trustees meet, starting tomorrow, is not a grudging, apologetic "we are forced into this" type of vote, but a bold embrace of an option that may be a life-saving choice for disengaged and disaffected black...

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A Template For Social Activism

You won't find a better model than Pat Capponi who for decades has been putting the interests of others first......she has GAINED the respect of those who can help her meet her goals.

Open minds meet in Parkdale TheStar.com - comment - Open minds meet in Parkdale

January 30, 2008

Carol Goar

The police call them EDPs.

That stands for emotionally disturbed persons. They can be suicidal, delusional, caught in a horrific flashback, lashing out wildly or cowering in terror. Their language may be garbled. Their physical strength can be enormous.

The thing is, they're sick. They're not criminals.

Close to 60 episodic EDPs – individuals with a range of mental disorders – showed up at the Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre last week for a two-hour meeting with Toronto police.

The turnout was remarkable, considering the tense relations between psychiatric survivors (as they prefer to call themselves) and the police. What was even more remarkable was the openness on both sides.

Much of the credit goes to Pat Capponi, who organized the meeting. The author, anti-poverty activist and psychiatric survivor has a huge network of friends and contacts on the streets, in the rooming houses, at the drop-in centres and at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. If she says it's safe to come, they come.

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Godzilla Didn't Have Support Among The Populace

Unlike our own Godzilla who has the support of every left wing nutbar, social in-activists, unionists, environuts, etc. who feed at the public trough.

TDSB Solutions To Problems

This move will:

* eliminate gang violence
* reduce teen pregnancy
* teach parental responsibility
* set achievable standards for failure
* provide an income for social in-activists

T.O. Board Trustees Approve Black-Focused School After Furious Debate

Four strategies define the Toronto District School Board's plan to improve 'the success of Black students.'

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Let's Give Mayor Miller A Break.........

.....he hasn't been in touch with the real world for years.

Slinger Weighs In On Loony Bins

Jan 29, 2008 04:30 AM

joey Slinger

If leaders tend to emerge when the need for them is greatest, Toronto's George Washington is due to put in an appearance real soon.

On Dec. 16, 1773, three British ships laden with tea were moored in Boston harbour. The tea, and particularly the stiff British duty added to its already steep price, fuelled the growing resentment against rule by a distant, indifferent master.

Gangs dumped the cargoes – emptying 342 chests of tea, some 41,000 kilos worth an estimated £10,000 into the water.

Never mind that this ultimately led to George W. Bush. Some cookies crumble.

As soon as Toronto householders are issued monstrous blue bins for the recyclable materials we used to leave at the curb in those blue and grey boxes – some have them already – we are obliged to start using them.

Now, there could not be a greater admirer of this newspaper's Jack (The Fixer) Lakey than I. I'm even leading a campaign to have the new footbridge across Taylor Creek near the public washrooms between Don Mills Rd. and Victoria Park Ave. named the Jack (The Fixer) Lakey Memorial Footbridge after he embarrassed the city into replacing the old one that – as numerous complaints by ordinary citizens had pointed out to absolutely no avail – collapsed and fell into the water several years before.

When it comes to getting things fixed, I, and thousands like me, know that Jack (The Fixer) Lakey is the only one we can rely on. Without him, as far as the civic administration is concerned, anything that's broken will stay that way forever.

Yet when it comes to doing something about the new blue bins – maybe because the bins apparently aren't broken; they're supposed to be this hopeless – his celebrated fixing gift turns out to be a dud.

Nothing else can explain why he was prompted to write that when the bins get delivered, ``complaints are being heard from householders.''

Complaints are being heard from householders?

Some tea was dumped in Boston harbour?

Never before in Toronto has there been such a devastating failure to see the forest fire for a tree that is smouldering.

The blue bins are pushing the citizens of Toronto closer to flat-out revolt than anything has in its history. All hell is about to break loose.

It already has wherever we've gathered to examine this latest development in the city's plan to drive us insane by making it impossible for us to deal with our garbage. Some community meetings merely dissolve into shouting. Others verge on five-alarm riots.

Clearly whoever imposed the new system never bothered to take a look at the city and so didn't notice that the bins won't work here.

They are too damn big. They won't fit between most houses. There isn't room for them on most porches.

They are too damn heavy. Empty they are cumbersome, full they are dead weights – even with their wheels. Unless you're using steroids, forget getting one that's loaded down steps.

They are too damn all-or-nothing. Anything you can't fit in them won't be picked up. No more extra piles of cardboard boxes; no more newspapers stuffed in plastic shopping bags. If it won't go in the bin, it's yours to keep. Forever.

They're too damn ugly. Considering that most of them will be left parked in front of houses, they'll lend a slummy tone to even the most pretentious streetscapes.

They are plain damn idiotic.

And unless we're idiots, the minute they arrive we'll haul them down and throw them in the damn lake.

No garbage compliance without prior consultation!

Okay, okay. Our rallying cry needs work.

Has Quality Of Service Improved?

Will the quality of service improve?
The answer to both these questions is a resounding NO and therefore the argument put forward, by those who support Comrade Miller and the left wing at city hall, that property owners shouldn't complain about Miller breaking his promise to hold property tax increases at the rate of inflation is ludicrous.

Miller math and the myths
Now I'm not really sure what terribly highbrow dictionary Mayor David Miller uses but in the one I regularly check -- my trusty Webster's -- "in line" means "in agreement with (a particular standard.)"
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Miller's premature exhilaration

Why are Torontonians supposed to cheer for a mayor who promised them a property tax hike of about 2.4% this year and who is instead now proposing one of 3.75%?

Who has just made it more expensive to buy a home or renew a car licence by imposing new taxes that did not previously exist?

Who is raising numerous other levies and fees?

Are Torontonians expected to jump for joy because the city promises to improve its tree maintenance service (how could it be any worse?) add a few bus routes and install a stingray touch tank at the zoo?

As for Mayor David Miller's argument yesterday that for the first time since amalgamation in 1998, Toronto is submitting a "balanced budget" at the start of the annual budget process, that's true.

But it's only true because this year Queen's Park bailed out the city at the beginning of the budget process instead of at the end.

Smoke and mirrors aside, Miller yesterday declared a premature victory over the city's fiscal crisis, funded in part by Miller's broken election promise to keep annual tax hikes at or about the rate of inflation -- currently 2.4% -- compared to what he's proposed -- 3.75% -- which means he missed his target by 56%.

Apparently Miller thinks that's good enough for government work.

We don't.

No one can wave a magic wand and wish away the city's fiscal crunch, some of which predates Miller.

The problem is, the mayor's happy talk aside, Torontonians know the score.

They know their city hasn't really turned the corner in anyone's minds but Miller and those paid to echo what he says.

They know their city is still in decline.

They know Miller has largely been a disappointment as mayor -- a smart but unimaginative leader who plods along believing that doing things the way we've always done them in Toronto -- tax and spend, cry poor and, in his case, never take off those left-wing ideological blinders -- is the way to make Toronto great again.

Look around. Is Toronto "great" these days? There's your answer.

Miller's `modest' proposal
Paul Moloney 47 min. ago
Toronto city councillors have been presented with a proposed operating budget this year of $8.2 billion – to be precise, $8,186,920,000 – a figure that will require homeowners to fork over an extra 3.75 per ...

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The Danger Of Giving Comrade Miller Keys To Candy Store

Dump tourist area idea TheStar.com - comment - Dump tourist area idea

January 28, 2008

While Toronto has many shopping districts worth a visit, a proposal to make the entire city an official tourist area goes too far. Such a designation – now possible under the powers granted in the new City of Toronto Act – would allow stores everywhere to open on statutory holidays except Christmas, but Toronto tourism officials have not made a convincing case for it.

Shopping is already allowed on statutory holidays in Toronto's existing designated tourist zones, such as downtown Yonge St., Yorkville and Harbourfront. An argument can be made that stores within those areas have an unfair advantage over other downtown outlets, some just a few blocks away, which must remain shut on statutory holidays.

But the best way to remedy that inequity is a second option being considered by the city – a tourism designation for the entire core, roughly bounded by Dovercourt Rd., Dupont St. and Bayview Ave. This approach would cover the main areas frequented by tourists without triggering a backlash in surrounding cities like Mississauga, which has already expressed concern that its retailers would face unfair competition if all of Toronto were designated as a tourist zone. It might ask the province to allow it to do the same. That would start the snowball rolling through the whole province.

It seems wiser to focus change on Toronto's core.

Not A New Idea - Similar Concept Used In Galley Ships

Galley of the largest size, with five men on each oar

Pedal power to the people Exercise bikes will light up shelter By JENNY YUEN, SUN MEDIA The Salvation Army Gateway shelter will soon be glowing with lights using pedal power from old exercise bikes. The WeloBike project launches Feb. 12 at the Jarvis St. shelter and volunteers are needed to come in and pedal away for at least 30 minutes at a stretch. That energy will be stored in an attached battery pack and used to light up the rooms. "It brings a whole new meaning to the expression 'people power', " said WeloBike founder Cyril Guerette. The initiative makes people aware of the work that goes into electricity production and how more energy efficient LEDs and Tungsten halogens are compared to regular light bulbs. More

Here Are The Facts........

Harper says 'right' not 'politically popular' will decide Afghan mission
Canada's future in Afghanistan will not be decided based on what is politically popular, the prime minister vowed Friday, but on "what is right."

Harper praises Manley report in speech to Tories
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the Manley report on Afghanistan was strong, balanced and realistic, but did not indicate whether he would follow its recommendations.

If The Cause Is That Just..........

........wouldn't it be more productive to take it to the steps of the White House? These people were not drafted but chose to join the military. The military don't set government policy........

January 24, 2008

From the U.S. Army to Canada: a resister's journey I am guilty of desertion. I deserted the United States Army. But if one digs a little more deeply into what I have done, they may learn the truth of the matter: I am a victim of an unjust system. >by Brad McCall >in his own words January 26, 2008 U.S. Deserters and the United Church. Is the United Church a religious or political organization,? in Toronto at least it is a political organization, their congregations support the most odious people , such as Hamas and the Iraqi insurgents, in fact any murderous organization as long as they oppose the 'American Empire' I remember one United Church official actually saying in the Globe and Mail that Castro's Cuba is more democratic than the U.S. I wrote a letter in response, (they published it). Anyway look at this , look who is there Olivia Chow. this is the women who went to a certain event headed by George Galloway at the U.of T, George Galloway should be remembered was a fan of Saddam Hussein and is very 'anti-choice' (something his femi supporters do not realise). I am assuming if I give my money to a United Church it is not tax deductible as this is definitely not a religious organization,. Posted at 08:16 PM

I Didn't Know That! I Wonder Why

Possibly because the local media are too busy supporting Palestian students in their protests at York.....

4,200 balloons.....4,200 Kassams...

A great way to illustrate the number of Kassam rockets fired into Israel since it disengaged from Gaza....

As the United Nations Security Council debated a response to the situation in the Gaza Strip and Sderot, Israel's New York Consulate held a protest in front of UN headquarters on Thursday, in which they placed 4,200 red balloons on the UN's doorstep. The number of balloons signified the 4,200 Kassam rockets fired into Israel from Gaza since the 2005 disengagement from the Strip.

The display was meant to raise world awareness to the fact that Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip are part of an effort to end the rocket attacks, the consulate said in a statement.

"Up until this day, every attempt to raise the issue and make it part of the American media's agenda has been unsuccessful," Consulate Spokesman David Saranga said

At Least We Got Olivia And Him Out Of Local Politics

NDP watchers wonder if Layton can deliver more TheStar.com - Canada - NDP watchers wonder if Layton can deliver more

Five years after his election as federal NDP leader, the jury's still out on his efforts to build the party

January 26, 2008

Richard Brennan
OTTAWA BUREAU

OTTAWA–When Jack Layton was picked five years ago this month to lead the New Democratic Party, he was billed as the great hope, the man who was going to put the hapless left-of-centre party back on the map again.

For some, the jury is still out on whether the former high-profile Toronto councillor has lived up to his reputation, particularly with the Green party nipping at the NDP's heels in Greater Toronto.

On Monday, Layton, 57, will mark his five years as party leader with a speech to caucus. And while he's expected to tout the gains made so far under his leadership, some are quietly wondering whether he's able to do more.

But in an interview, Layton says he's chuffed about the party's chances next time around and he's not shy about taking a good deal of the credit for giving the party a voice again.

He boasts how the party has prospered under his leadership, going from 19 seats to 30 in the last election, and last year earning a breakthrough in Quebec, with a win by Thomas Mulcair in a by-election in Outremont.

"We've actually had a very good year. ... Nobody would have predicted that we would have not only elected an MP not only in Quebec but in a riding (Outremont) that nobody would have given us a shot at and that we would win it with 49 per cent of the vote," he said.

"You don't get taken seriously as a national party if you haven't got the capacity to get elected in Quebec. We broke through there and I think we will add seats" in Quebec.

Over the last week, he's launched volleys at his Liberal and Conservative rivals. The two parties have failed repeatedly to deliver on key promises over the last 20 years – from jobs to education to the environment and health care, the NDP leader said, adding that the Tories and Liberals have made the lives of working families and the middle class less affordable while ensuring that big corporations and their CEOs got big tax cuts.

Layton said they have fuelled a growing gap between the rich and "the rest of us" – Canadians who work harder and harder while falling further and further behind.

Layton and his colleagues are hoping to capitalize on the lukewarm support for both the Conservatives and Liberals to pick up more seats in an election expected as early as this spring.

The party is going to have to win many more seats across the country if it is going to be a contender. That means hard work and staking out positions on the economy, the environment and social programs.

Going into the recent NDP caucus meeting in Montebello, Que., MP Tony Martin (Sault Ste. Marie) said the party was keen on developing a populist program.

"I have been at this (politics) for 18 years and have gone to probably 25 retreats, and each time you go in looking for that magic bullet that is going to do it for you," Martin said.

"It will be more of the same, working together to try to find a way to get what we think is a very valuable program out to the people so they might see as something they can support," he said.

CAW president Buzz Hargrove, who was suspended from the NDP for openly backing Liberal candidates in the 2006 federal election, said the federal New Democrats are no longer seen as a left-of-centre alternative, but simply another middle-of-the-road party trying to share the ground with the Liberals and the Conservatives.

"They are lacking a clearly defined direction," Hargrove said.

With files from The Canadian Press

Another $800K Down The Toilet

If you haven't noticed Gerard Kennedy, who along with Dullton, made grandiose promises and claims about improving education and drop out rates, has abonded the ship.......

This isn't about segregation

Request for a black-focused school is about concerns over high drop-out rates. The Toronto school board will decide this week whether to set up a black-focused school, opening in September, 2009. It's inaccurate to suggest this will.. MORE...

Jingle, Jingle...........

We all pay for Comrade Miller being elected by the city unions........

Do union deals get us anything?
City workers often grab big raises, but taxpayers have to wait and see
It's contract time at the City of Toronto. Reserve the Brinks trucks.
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David Miller's money juggle
City leaders see budget heading toward sustainability, we see taxes, fees, stop-gaps
You heard it here folks.
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Turn Down The Stat, Look For Dented Cans, Day Old Bread Is Over There.........

A hand in every pocket Everyone will have to pay more and more and more just to keep what they have in the the city's new budget

my ZEN RURYK, CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF

Mayor David Miller and his supporters won't be satisfied with digging deeper just into your front pocket this year.

They're sticking their hands in your back, coat and shirt pockets, as well, in an aggressive bid to find cash for programs in this year's budget of more than $8 billion.

For the first time since the creation of an amalgamated Toronto, city officials will unveil a proposed budget tomorrow that does not contain a huge shortfall.

However, that balancing act will only be accomplished with a property tax hike that, according to city officials, could be as high as 4%, outstripping inflation.

And to balance its books the city also needs to use more than $200 million in provincial capital grants intended for TTC maintenance to pay transit salaries and operating costs.

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Taxpayers squeezed by 'greedy councillors'

GTA help un-wanted

Impersonating A Dentist?

This would fall into the same category as impersonating a security guard.

Toronto police issue warrant for fake dentist

Reality Check

Wonder Women Is Flying Over York University

A Parade of Bigots

York University

What a strange little Bizarro-land we live in, when a horde of privileged up-and-comings use the special status they have been accorded, in an institution of higher learning , and fearlessly take to street and stage to voraciously denounce a hegemonic system which they claim has held them back at every turn.

Even more confusing is their insistence they not be judged based on race, while they enthusiastically wear skin color as a badge of honor and entitlement to label and silence any who dissent from the assumption that a mindless horde of white power is forever nipping at the heels of downtrodden blacks, held back from rampant cannibalism by sheer force of will and threats of violence.

A commenter by the name of mahoganysun is a perfect example of this hypocritical attitude. He or she touts that these black students are empowered, while at the same time, railing against the machinations of a system which represses them based on race. No where in sight, is any understanding of the irony that, if the system were truly designed to keep blacks disenfranchised, there would be no Black Students Association or for that matter, no blacks allowed on campus at all. They would still be picking crops and herded like animals.

But a few years ago, a bunch of white people got together and decided they didn’t want to treat people that way, anymore. Many of them fought and died for the freedom mahoganysun and his/her bigoted compatriots take so flagrantly for granted and without any acknowledgment or gratitude for those sacrifices.

Look outside of Canada and more often than not, where you see noble African blacks in charge of their own nation, you will find civil war and slavery. Blacks enslaving other blacks, in the country where they were born. It has been that way long before any white man ever showed up on the shores of the dark continent and today – 145 years after the emancipation proclamation was enacted by North American white men – it is still going on.

Yet these diapered dilatants feel entitled to agitate for freedoms and opportunities they already have, while they hold the rest of society hostage under the jackboot of guilt for a practice which we hold the singular distinction of having been the only society in history to go to war to put an end to.

That this privileged bigot seems to have had no opportunities denied to him/her, is an observation which apparently makes me a dumbass and him/her somehow more enlightened than me. But I read that one – it was the one where the pasty white Superman says “me am going to kill you” – and it was a fictional account of an alternate universe, using a twisted sense of logic.

Here, in the real world, a black man in Toronto has more to fear from gun-toting thugs of his own color, than he does from a sheet-wearing lynch mob or knuckle-dragging cross burners. And a retard with nothing better to do with his time, than scrawl “nigger” on a bathroom wall is a subject of scorn and/or pity – not an indictment of a broad cross-section of society.

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Send Them Home

And let them express themselves in front of the White House.......

1.25.2008

let them stay: today and tomorrow, u.s. and canada

A final reminder: today in the U.S., and tomorrow in Canada, there are important events in support of Iraq War resisters in Canada.

The Mantra Of The Left

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Only Whites can be Racist

Mentioning that Farrakhan is a repulsive racist makes YOU a racist!

"When veteran Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen pointed out last week that Obama's long-time "spiritual mentor" Rev. Wright had last November 2 awarded his "Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Trumpeter Award for Lifetime Achievement " to Nation of Islam supremo "The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan," he was widely denounced as a racist."he" being not Obama or Wright or Farrakhan, but Cohen -- for being the first journalist to mention this gala bash at the Chicago Hyatt Regency, a mere ten weeks after it happened!

Source

An example of Cohen being flailed here

Do We Need A Durban II? Stephen Doesn't Think So

Boycotting the Racists

Dysfunctional, corrupt, wasteful, undemocratic --- these are the words which best describe the United Nations.

Yet strangely, Canadians generally hold this institution in high esteem.

That's why it took something akin to courage for the Harper government to boycott the UN's "anti-racism" conference scheduled to take place next year.

Of course, the government is doing the right thing.

As the Canadian Coalition for Democracies put it, "the last UN anti-racism conference held in Durban in 2001 degenerated into a hate-fest of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel vitriol, while the most egregious human rights violators escaped criticism."

Sadly Too Many Believe This.........

Posted For No Reason Other Than To Piss Off CC

"It's like you, but a gay guy."

BlazingCatFur recommends A Dissident in Toronto.

# Kathy : 2008-01-24 19:39:47 EST

What Is Comrade Miller Up To.......

It's time for positive action by Toronto council

Posted 1 day ago

As a caring Canadian who was born in Toronto, was raised and schooled there, I am totally disgusted and saddened at the attitude of Mayor David Miller when it comes to the subject of handgun control.

Mayor Miller should be told to shut up on his handgun diatribe as he is only making Toronto council look stupid and the city a laughing stock.

Enough of his jabs against the Harper government; surely there comes a time when Toronto council must take some responsibility for the gang warfare that is happening on the streets.

Every one of Toronto' city councillors knows that people kill people, guns don't. Putting the blame on inanimate objects is a total cop-out. A handgun ban would do nothing to take handguns away from the criminals.

We all know what drugs do; their ban has done nothing to curb the drug trade.

Toronto's city council should work with senior levels of government to make a difference.

Toronto once had the best police chief in the land in Julian Fantino but city council buckled to liberal politics and fired him. Fantino called a spade a spade and told the country that the federal long-gun registry had not helped the city of Toronto solve one single crime despite the huge cost of it. That true statement was ignored.

Pressure should have been put on the Paul Martin Liberals to abolish it and put the dollars into more police resources that Fantino asked for.

The waste continues to be ignored despite the fact that there are lots of dollars that could be redirected to programs that would actually help Toronto.

Toronto needs a much-bolstered police service to cope with the crime on its streets and curb the illicit trade in handguns. This will cost lots of hard-earned taxpayers dollars.

There are many of us who would get behind this movement if Toronto would only get it going in the right direction.

Lights out! Sign up for greenhouse gas reduction March 29

Posted By By Bob Owen

Posted 1 day ago

The lights will be off despite everyone being at home for one hour March 29 if the world-wide Earth Hour movement catches on.

The Earth Hour this year will take place at 8 p.m. local time March 29. As the time zones change, the hour will move like a wave around the earth.

Last March 31, the Australian city of Sydney saw 2.2-million residents and 2,100 businesses turn off their lights for one hour. That resulted in a 10.2-per-cent decrease in energy consumption. Put in real terms, it was the equivalent of removing 48,000 cars from the roads for an hour.

Northumberland County resident Leah Murray of Brighton has jumped into the spirit of the event, signing herself and her business up, planning to turn out the lights, microwave and computers for an hour March 29. She'll light her candles and try some night photography with her digital camera. Others are quietly joining her.

Northumberland County Warden Chris Herrington was contacted to see if the county will be participating this year, and is suggesting the county consider it on the recommendation of CAO Bill Pyatt.

Cramahe Township Mayor Marc Coombs says the Earth Hour proposal will be discussed at an upcoming meeting of his municipality. He says the idea it sounds interesting.

Earth Hour was the start of the Sydney campaign to reduce greenhouse emissions by five per cent last year. The one-hour lights-out event demonstrated how simple actions can make the world of difference if everyone takes part.

Through the power of the Internet, the originators of the idea, including members of the Australian arm of the World Wildlife Federation, hope to turn Earth Hour into a global phenomenon.

"From rural towns in the outback to highly populated iconic cities - everyone can take simple steps to make Earth Hour happen," Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore says.

"The event in Sydney created a powerful global message that it's possible for individuals to take meaningful action on climate change - and that's the message we now intend to take to people all around the world," World Wildlife Federation-Australia CEO Greg Bourne says.

As of December 14, Toronto was the only Canadian city to take up the challenge.

Picking Flys%#t Out Of Pepper

This should make the anti-US, anti-Bush, anti-everything nutbar's day........

Is term 'Canadian' used as racist word? TheStar.com - GTA - Is term 'Canadian' used as racist word?

Email lands Texas district attorney in hot water

Brett Popplewell
Staff Reporter

Is "Canadian" the new black? Perhaps – that is if you're a racist speaking in code.

Recent revelations that the term "Canadian" is being used to replace racist names for black people have got a Texas assistant district attorney into trouble and have left others wondering what exactly it means to be labelled a Canadian in the American south.

Long derogated as weak-kneed liberals with lax laws and funny monopoly money, Canadians have carried a negative connotation in certain regions of America – but not as a replacement for the N-word.

Earlier this week a columnist with the Houston Chronicle uncovered an email from Harris County assistant district attorney Mike Trent who, in a congratulatory note to a junior prosecutor, used the word "Canadians" to describe blacks on a jury.

Trent wrote of the prosecutor in a 2003 email: "He overcame a subversively good defence by Matt Hennessey that had some Canadians on the jury feeling sorry for the defendant and forced them to do the right thing."

Trent's email remained unchallenged by colleagues who received the email, despite there being no actual Canadians on the jury.

But when Trent's office came under scrutiny this month over an unrelated incident, the email was unearthed, leaving Trent open to accusations of bigotry.

Those accusations are grounded in allegations that the use of "Canadians" was in keeping with the definition listed on an online racial slurs database that defines "Canadian" as a masked replacement for the N-word.

In his own defence, Trent said he honestly thought there had been Canadians on the jury and did not understand the negative connotation of the word.

Others, including the columnist with the Houston Chronicle initially thought the reference to Canadians may have been a misspelling of Californians, who are themselves seen to espouse many of the same liberal values as Canadians.

Despite the controversy, Henry Wells, a Texan and media relations officer with the Canadian Consulate General in Dallas, says he has never heard the term used in a racial manner before.

Thanks GOTR

A bitch I wouldn't mind seeing in the White House

Now that Fred has dropped out, and Giuliani will probably tank next, I have moved my support to a latecomer:

Sunny Lucas.

Sunny's views on

TERRORISM
"Kill them all."

IMMIGRATION
"We'll try to be reasonable but most of you need to get the fuck out."

THE ECONOMY
"Flat tax. Capitalism. No hand-outs. Tough shit."

RELIGION
"Don't ask, don't tell."

ABORTION
"Mandatory sterilization, just like at the pound."

GUNS
"I don't give a shit about a militia."

EDUCATION
"You only get a treat if you do the trick properly."

GAY MARRIAGE
"You're all being silly."


It's a sad state of affairs (no Clinton pun intended) when the best conservative candidate is someone who licks her own ass.

Lasso Of Truth Not All Encompessing - Too Bad

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Quote of the Day

If all black teachers, teaching all black culture were the magic pill to create all black geniuses, then wouldn't the degenerate black hole at Jane and Finch be a rocket science research complex by now?

WonderWoman, commenting on the idea of all black schools in Toronto

posted by RightGirl # 10:53 AM

Too Good To Pass Up

An accurate commentary on the left.....................

Canada Once Again Takes A Stand

Straight talk from Canada: "The Stephen Harper government has withdrawn its support for a UN anti-racism conference scheduled to take place next year in South Africa, according to a media release today from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism and Canadian identity, said today that the conference, like its predecessor in 2001, "has gone completely off the rails... Canada is interested in combating racism, not promoting it. We'll attend any conference that is opposed to racism and intolerance, not those that actually promote racism and intolerance". The last UN anti-racism conference held in Durban in 2001 degenerated into a hate-fest of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel vitriol, while the most egregious human rights violators escaped criticism. The Toronto Star today reported that "all of the non-governmental organizations invited to the first conference have been invited back to the second, including those that were at the 'forefront of the hatred', some of which posted pro-Hitler posters at the 2001 gathering."

Under The Microscope

Canada

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Living in the shadow of its southern neighbor, the nation of Canada will never be as great as the U.S. so long as it continues to burden...

Operative Words

Anyone want to bet that eventually the union will drive Comrade Miller to use police salaries as a benchmark for TTC employees?

Assaulting numbers

January 23, 2008 13:01

Assaulting numbers: We’ve complained in the past about the levels of customer service on the TTC, that too often drivers and collectors seem to feel the public is an obstacle to be overcome. Yet an investigation published by the Toronto Star last week causes us to pause to appreciate what drivers routinely go through. “In the five-year period ending in 2005, at least 181 drivers claimed post-traumatic stress disorder, a rate about four times that of Toronto police officers. Another 102 operators reported missing weeks or months of work because they were suffering anxiety, neurotic disorders and depression. TTC drivers report these problems more than any other workers in Ontario, according to workplace injury claims. Meanwhile, reported crimes on TTC property jumped 24 per cent in 2006,” the Star reported. These are shocking numbers. Clearly, we need to immediately do a better job of protecting drivers in the first place and, as their union demands, those who have been assaulted should be properly compensated.

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Get Out And Support Cowards And Deserters

No matter how you cut it these individuals volunteered to become part of the military establishment whose primary purpose is to fight and while they may have every right to take exception to the actions of the military they should stand and fight for what they believe but do it in front of the white house........

Let them stay

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled against U.S. war resisters, so head out to a rally, Saturday (January 26), and force the feds to give these peacemakers special status. 1 pm. Free. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. 416-598-1222, www.resisters.ca.

A Valid Question Or Homophobia

Putting gay rights before health

George Smitherman's attempt to stir controversy by criticizing the federal government's guidelines for organ donation leaves us wondering who he really represents as Health Minister of Ontario. MORE... Personally I think it is a valid question especially when you look at the poor record of this minister who seems to have media scrums annually on the same issues......

House Values Have Increased But So Have Expenses

And the expenses have gone up more than the increase in the standard of living so the increase in property values has no benefit for most home owners. We are paying for more and more services that are supposed to be covered by our property taxes so an increase in property value doesn't mean an increase in quality/quantity of services so homeowners are getting screwed while they live in their homes and then they get screwed again by Comrade Millers new tax when they sell the house.

Don't raise the roof over taxes TheStar.com - News - Don't raise the roof over taxes

January 25, 2008

Royson James

Apparently, house prices have jumped 20 per cent across Toronto in the last while. So fear-mongers have been warning citizens to expect a 20 per cent jump in property taxes once the freeze is lifted on assessments this summer.

Utter nonsense.

In fact, if your property has gone up less than 20 per cent in value, you'll be getting a tax cut.

If it jumped exactly 20 per cent, you're whistling along, unaffected.

And if you're fortunate enough to live in a hot neighbourhood like Riverdale, where prices have jumped 31 per cent, then you are staring at an 11 per cent increase – the difference between the mean increase and your high point.

Yes, double-digit hikes are not pleasant, but even these come with an ameliorative plan. The Ontario government, which created the problem by freezing assessments for two years, says it will phase in the new hikes over four years.

So Riverdalians are facing a rise in property taxes of less than 3 per cent per year – not nearly the apocalyptic scenario circulating this week.

No one should be shocked that if you freeze tax assessments, when you remove the cap the result will be skewed. All those who were lobbying the government to impose the freeze should be willing to pony up now. But, of course, they are not. Their agenda is to totally change the property tax system so that the high-priced downtown properties pay a lot less while those in the suburbs pay more.

So, should your share of the cost of municipal services be linked to the value of your home?

Don't expect to get an answer to that age-old, befuddling question when the province lifts the freeze on property tax assessments sometime this summer.

Volumes have been written, millions spent and much political capital consumed in pursuit of property tax fairness. Needless to say, "fairness" is as elusive as ever.

For as long as any of us can remember, two factors influence a homeowner's tax bill; the house's value and how much money the city needs to deliver services.

If the city has its sights on $1 billion, it calculates the combined value of all taxable properties and multiplies that sum by a number (the tax rate) to deliver the $1 billion. This tax rate is applied in the same way to the value of an individual property to determine what share of the $1 billion you will pay.

So, if the city freezes taxes till hell freezes over, your assessment would still rise if your property value has a higher percentage gain than everyone else's; you'd pay less taxes if the value of your home lagged behind others.

This market value system is prevalent around the world. It's volatile. And it can require a house-rich but cash-poor senior to pay more taxes because his property is in a hot neighbourhood.

But one study by Anne Golden concluded the alternatives have even more egregious inequities.

The most vocal opponents of the property tax assessment system have been downtown owners, along with their media advocates, opinion leaders and local politicians. When they get their way, it means higher taxes in the suburbs.

Those downtown forces got a gift in a report by Ontario Ombudsman André Marin that lambasted the agency that assigns a value on homes for tax purposes. "Arrogant; secretive; inaccurate" were some of Marin's criticisms. But he never recommended a better assessment system. Or imposing a freeze.

The freeze may have been good politics for the McGuinty government; now you pay.

Royson James usually appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Email: rjames@thestar.ca

Common Sense And Reality Win One

Incinerator approved, but opposition burns

Phinjo Gombu Jan. 25, 2008 The two votes giving final approval for the site of the GTA's first...

Give Organic Farmers Credit........

........for understanding the marketplace and bringing their dog and pony show to Toronto where a segment of our population don't know the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit. Another bottled water con job?

Organic farmers' big city snow job on Toronto

By CONNIE WOODCOCK

The organic farmers in my area are in a snit. Seems they don't want to go to the local farmers' markets anymore. They have a number of reasons but when the hemming and hawing are all done, they're having trouble selling enough stuff to make it worthwhile.

So next summer, they're taking their veggies to Toronto where life for organic farmers is like dying and going to heaven.

The Quinte Organic Farmers Co-operative says it's much easier to truck their stuff to Toronto than it is to sell at the farmers' markets in their own neighbourhood -- Belleville and Cobourg.

They won't come right out and say it -- one executive says only that they were having "volume" problems -- but the implication is people who live in the Belleville and Cobourg area are cheap and not as well educated in environmental concerns as Toronto market goers. In fact, one local newspaper quoted the association's president saying exactly that. Now they're backtracking, saying they really didn't mean it to sound quite like that.

I love the local farmers' markets these people supply but I have to admit I don't buy much from organic farmers and maybe my fellow consumers feel the same way I do: The price is unacceptably high.

But I also think we locals, being closer to our rural roots than Torontonians, know something the city sophisticates don't.

We know an organic carrot looks, tastes and contains vitamins exactly the same as a regular carrot. It grows in the same soil, absorbs the same rainfall and has all the same particulate matter falling on it. In fact, the differences between the two are so minor, many scientists believe there is no significant difference -- just that the price of one is two or three times the price of the other

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Will Joe Pantaloons And Tree Huggers Listen?

The public speaks out.................

Sue-Ann Levy

Couple 'held ransom' by unruly tree Thu, January 24, 2008 Perry Thompson and his wife Norma Graham have a point when they say they're being "held ransom" by an 18-metre city tree looming over their tiny Grandville Ave. home. Full Column

Prisoners Right To Privacy Trumps Public Safety

Ridiculous!

Children used as drug mules for convict parents

What Did We Get From The $600K Comrade Miller Spent On At Risk Kids

John Oakley: There may be a better way than Afro-centric schools

Posted: January 24, 2008, 11:37 AM by John Turley-Ewart

Desperate times call for desperate measures, or at least some innovative thinking. That’s the argument for an Afro-centric school program here in Toronto, with a stated budget somewhere beyond eight hundred grand.

Meanwhile today in Atlanta, Georgia, two schools are launching the “learn and earn” program that’ll pay kids eight bucks an hour to stay after school for extra tutorials in math and science. The 15 week pilot study is being funded by private philanthropy, so the taxpayer’s off the hook, if that’s the concern. But you still get the predictable howls of derision that this is bribery, pure and simple. So what? What will eight hundred grand buy us here, besides bloated administrative costs and additional unionized teachers’ wages?

An educated guess says any cost/benefit analysis is likely to favour the Atlanta model as opposed to a black-focused curriculum as the one most apt to get the kids’ attention. And if the stated objective is to engage the kids and keep them learning, then the end justifies the means; Unless, of course, there’s another agenda.

John Oakley can be heard from 5:45 a.m.-10 a.m. EST Monday to Friday on AM 640 Toronto Radio

Comrade Miller Calls For Ban On Drug Dealers Owning Cars

Drug deal gone sour ends in death

Student on trial for murder
A York University student and petty drug dealer drove his car over a curb and down a walkway, eventually running over and killing a man who tried to rip him off for pot, court heard yesterday.

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Kennedy And McGinty's Idea Of Improving The Education System

Pseudo graduates will want real money when they enter the workforce and these will be the leaders of tomorrow.

January 23, 2008 Graduation rate inflated by 'pseudo-credits'?

By MOIRA MacDONALD

End of January and 'tis the season for teachers working in semestered high schools to crank out first semester marks.

But for well over a year, high school teachers have been complaining that pressure to graduate more students -- stemming from a provincial commitment to boost high school graduation rates to 85% in three years -- is resulting in artificially-inflated marks and artificially-earned course credits that do not reflect students' true abilities or efforts.

"If there is any way to pass a student, we are encouraged to do it," one Toronto high school teacher told me.

"There is certainly a sense ... that principals are pushing more and more for teachers to pump the marks up to lessen the failure rate," Doug Joliffe, president of the union local for Toronto's public high school teachers, told me. But, he added, "not failing students is not the same as teaching them."

It has been a long-held practice that teachers do not give a mark of 49; they either give a clear failure of something around 45 or put the mark up over 50. But, teachers say, the situation has become worse.

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A Rare But Welcome Event

And hopefully we will see more of this type of judgement when it comes to our criminal justice system but I caution you not to start celebrating too soon. I will almost guarantee that the bleeding hearts will be out there bleating for their vision of justice. BTW why does it take two years to bring this to trial?

Teen accused in Stefanie Rengel's murder denied bail

By MICHELE MANDEL, SUN MEDIA

In a rare move, the 16-year-old girl accused of ordering her boyfriend to murder rival Stefanie Rengel was denied bail yesterday and will be held in detention until her trial - which may be two years away.

“I have concluded that this is one of those rare cases where detention is justified,” Ontario Superior Court Justice David McCombs said today in making his ruling.

As the girl began to cry, the judge allowed her emotional parents and sobbing 10-year-old brother to approach the prisoner’s box and hug her before she was transferred back to the Syl Apps Youth Detention Centre.

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Bill Says It All

Universal Day Care - Battle Cry Of The Left

Are You Ready To "LET THE VILLAGE RAISE YOUR CHILD?"

Universal Child Care Means Ending Parents' Rights

When Hillary Clinton showed television viewers the Christmas presents she wants to give us if she is elected, her most important was Universal Pre-K, following closely after Universal Health Care. Hillary was reminding us of her status as the grand dame of the ideology expressed in her favorite African slogan, "It takes a village to raise a child."

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by Phyllis Schlafly, January 16, 2008

Indeed, there seem to be many busybodies who believe the village, i.e., government functionaries, should make major decisions about the upbringing of children, including what they are taught and how they are medicated. They may approach this incrementally, but their goal is always "universal."

We thought it was outrageous when the Ninth Circuit proclaimed in the Palmdale case in 2005 that the fundamental right of parents over the upbringing of their children "does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door." Now the Hillary-style liberals are also acting as though parents' rights over their own children do not extend beyond the threshold of the local health clinic.

Massachusetts has just started to require that all children in Medicaid (460,000 kids) must be subjected annually to mental health screening in order to detect signs of possible mental illness, autism, or depression. One of the criteria on the questionnaire used to identify mental health problems is that the child is "seeming to have less fun."

It's not hard to predict that many children will be unfairly saddled with a false label, assigned to unnecessary and expensive treatment, and prescribed costly drugs whose effect may range from worthless to harmful. These costs to the taxpayers will be expanded by the inevitable fattening of the pocketbooks of psychiatrists and psychologists.

Last year, there was considerable parental opposition to bills that were introduced into several state legislatures to require mental health screening of all children in public schools. Apparently Plan B is for the state to force the plan on Medicaid recipients, who are less likely to resist.

New Jersey just added four new vaccines to those already required of children who attend public schools, and has become the first state to require the flu vaccine. Children attending preschool or licensed daycare centers must receive the flu shot annually.

New Jersey regulations also require the pneumococcal vaccine for preschoolers, the meningitis vaccine for sixth graders, and a booster shot for the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis they already receive. Despite the protests of many parents, including the New Jersey Alliance for Informed Choice in Vaccination, these regulations will go into effect in September 2008.

Parents believe that this New Jersey requirement is a major encroachment on parents' rights to make medical and other decisions for their own children. Parents also cite the potential dangers of vaccines for some children.

Many of the flu shots and some of the meningitis vaccines contain the mercury-based preservative thimerosal. This is the first time that any state has mandated a vaccine containing mercury since the federal government adopted the policy in 1999 of encouraging vaccines to be mercury-free "as soon as possible."

The Food and Drug Administration advises pregnant women to avoid eating even small amounts of fish with high mercury content. But New Jersey is now demanding that six-month-old babies be given potential mercury vaccines if they spend even one day a week in daycare.

Another toxic substance, formaldehyde, is also present in the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and flu vaccines.

New Jersey allows exemptions from vaccines for medical or religious reasons, but some parents claim that the process of claiming an exemption is made as difficult as possible.

In Prince George's County, Maryland, officials used the heavy hand of government to force vaccinations. Claiming that 2,300 out of 131,000 public school students had not received their hepatitis B and chickenpox vaccines, the state began what the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons called a "heavy-handed vaccine roundup."

State's Attorney Glenn F. Ivey intimidated parents with what he called "legal action." He arranged to have letters sent to all parents who were "out of compliance" demanding that they must attend a court hearing where they would receive a verbal reprimand and their children would be vaccinated, presumably forcibly.

The letter directly threatened parents: "Unexcused absences by your child may subject you to a criminal charge." Few parents knew they could apply for medical or religious exemptions, and many believed they faced jail or heavy fines of $50 a day.

A decent respect for parents' rights over medical treatment imposed on their own children should require that states allow vaccine exemptions for philosophical and conscientious reasons, in addition to medical and religious reasons. A few states do but, unfortunately, not New Jersey or Maryland.